William+Harvey

= = **__William Harvey__**

I am Thomas Harvey, a farmer. I have decided to write about my son William Harvey. The reason behind this is to provide information on this wonderful man to the future world

William Harvey was a physician who was born on 1st April 1578 and died on 3rd June. He was a great man, his major achievements being: -Recognising the full circulation of the blood in the human body -Disproving Galen’s theory that the body made new blood as it used up the old -Proved that the heart pumped blood around the body through arteries and blood returned to the heart through veins

On 1st April 1578, my wife gave birth to a baby, who we named William Harvey. I sent William to start his education attending the King’s School in Canterbury for 5 years. When he was 16, I was very contented to find that he had earned a medical scholarship to the Gonvile and Caius College in Cambridge, where he learnt art and medicine there from 1593-1599. He had received a bachelor’s degree in 1597. He then continued his studies at the University of Padua which was the leading European medical school at the time. He became a student of Hieronymous Fabricius, who had a significant effect on William. He was also educated by Cesare Cremonini, an Italian philosopher and one of Aristotle’s followers. In 1602, he earned his doctorate and then went back to England to work as a doctor. My son then married Elizabeth Browne in 104, and although they were a happy couple, they didn’t have children. Harvey then was a student in the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1607. He then became a lecturer in surgery at the Royal College in 1615-1656. Harvey was also a loyal follower of monarchy.

His achievements have shaped our world- because of him, we now know that blood runs through our body, being pumped by the heart, instead of staying where it is in our body. This is a great improvement of what was first though, where each part of the body had its own blood that stayed there. This discovery has shaped the modern world by helping doctors better understand how diseases spread around the body.


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